Torkil Eyðfinsson Veyhe (born 9 January 1990) is a Faroese former professional

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, who rode professionally between 2017 and 2020 for , and . He also rode for the national cycling team of the

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at the

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, winning two gold medals, four silver medals and two bronze medals. In 2016 he rode for the Danish national team at the

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and in 2017 at the

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in the men's road race. Earlier he rode for the DCU team Team WeBike–CK Aarhus, the Danish club Odder Cykel Klub and the Faroese club Tórshavnar Súkklufelag. In 2016 he won his first A-race in Denmark and his first UCI points.

Background and education

Torkil Veyhe comes from the

, from the capital

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. He started as a cyclist there and soon became a multiple Faroese Champion as well as multiple winner of

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(Kring Føroyar) road race. After finishing the

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(HHX) in Tórshavn in 2010, Veyhe moved to Aarhus in Denmark to study for Engineer and to compete in Danish cycling competitions. First he took one year of preparation for the education he wanted to study, and the following year he started the education. He took the Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) in Structural Engineering from the

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School of Engineering in 2014. The same year he continued to study for the Master of Science in Engineering degree which he finished in 2016. Veyhe defended his MS final thesis on the day after competing at the Danish Championships time trial, where he was number 9, and two days after the exam he competed at the Danish Championships road race, hitting an early break out together with three other cyclists

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, Michael Reihs, and Mark Sehested Pedersen. After the Danish Championships he was elected for the Danish national team.

Career as a cyclist

He has won competitions like

in 2015 and Kring Føroyar in 2009, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2015 and 2017. He was Faroese champion in the time trial and in road race 2009. Veyhe competed at several events at the

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. Torkil Veyhe moved to live in Denmark to study and at the same time he continued to cycle on a high level. The first years in

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, he competed in lower class, but soon he won a 124-km race in

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for license cyclists in the B class. After competing in five races in Denmark in 2013 he was promoted to the A class. Veyhe competed at the

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where he took two silver medals. In June 2015 he took bronze in the Nishiki Løbet 2015 (Nishiki Race 2015) in

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, when he took gold in the men's individual time trial on 28 June 2015.Kvf.fo
Torkil vann fyrsta oyggjaleikagullið. He also won bronze in the men's road race at the 2015 Island Games.kvf.fo
Torkil Veyhe bronsu í landavegssúkkling. On 15 October 2015 Veyhe got a two-year agreement with Tryggingarfelagið Føroyar (a Faroese insurance company), which will support him financially until October 2017. After joining Team We-Bike CK Aarhus in November 2015 he sat two goals for 2016, he would win an A-race and he would win his first UCI points. In April and May 2016 both goals were achieved, he won his first 3 UCI points when finishing as number eight at the

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UCI category 1.2 on 29 April 2016 and two weeks later he won the A-race JE.DK in

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. After the Danish Championships in June 2016 he was elected to ride for the Danish national team at the

, along with teammate Niklas Pedersen. At the third stage he won the combativity award. In 2017, Veyhe was the winner of the Faroese National Road Race Championships in front of Helgi W. Olsen and Jan Hjaltalin. He also won the time trial by more than three minutes, and the criterium.

Major results

;2007 :

::2nd Team road race ::8th Time trial ;2009 : 2nd Team road race,

(with Eli Christiansen, Gunnar Dahl-Olsen, Bogi Kristiansen & Sigmund Olsson) ;2013 :

::2nd Time trial ::2nd Road race ;2015 :

::1st Time trial ::3rd Road racejn.fo
Torkil Veyhe vann bronsu á 112 km. ::3rd Team time trial ;2016 : 1st JE.DK Løbet Herning : 1st Pinsecuppen : 2nd Sønderborg-Post Cup : 2nd Designa løbet : 2nd Post Cup : 4th Hjørring-Sparekassen Vendsyssel : 5th Grenaa CC : 8th

: 8th Kolding BC : 9th

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, Danish National Road Championships : 9th

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Posten : Combativity award, Stage 3

;2017 :

::1st Time trial ::2nd Criterium ::3rd Team road race ::3rd Team time trial ::5th Road race : Faroese National Championships ::1st Road race ::1st Time trial ::1st Criterium : 1st DCU-A Rødekro : 3rd

: 3rd Skive-Løbet : 5th

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: 6th Overall

: 6th

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: 7th Edlund Løbet : 8th Overall

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: 10th

, Danish National Road Championships :

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::Most active rider, Stages 1 & 4

References

External links

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Torkil Veyhe on feltet.dk
{{DEFAULTSORT:Veyhe, Torkil 1990 births Living people Faroese male cyclists Sportspeople from Tórshavn Danish male cyclists 21st-century Danish sportsmen